From “Sex Work” Advocate to Survivor Leader: A Journey Embraced
05/25/2017 02:56 pm ET Updated May 30, 2017 Nomonde Mihlali (“Mickey”) Meji is a program associate for Survivor Initiatives at Embrace Dignity in Cape Town,…
05/25/2017 02:56 pm ET Updated May 30, 2017 Nomonde Mihlali (“Mickey”) Meji is a program associate for Survivor Initiatives at Embrace Dignity in Cape Town,…
Abstract Several distinct ideologies have emerged from feminist theory. However, insofar as feminist ideologies differ, they agree in their recognition that women are essentially oppressed.It…
Abstract We examined social and physical violence experienced by American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) women in prostitution and their impacts on the mental and physical health…
Some pimps, some sex buyers and some governments have made the decision that it is reasonable to expect certain women to tolerate sexual exploitation and…
This is a French translation of Very inconvenient truths: sex buyers, sexual coercion, and prostitution-harm-denial originally published in Logos.
Zurbriggen, E. L., & Roberts, T.-A. (Eds.). (2013). The sexualization of girls and girlhood: Causes, consequences, and resistance. Oxford University Press. Abstract For the past…
This 4th Global Report on sexual exploitation reflects the Fondation Scelles’ persistent objectives: for 20 years the foundation has conducted an in-depth and objective study…
In Linking the Histories of Slavery in North America and Its Borderlands, by Bonnie Martin and James F. Brooks (eds.) Santa Fe: School for Advanced…
The full decriminalization of prostitution has received considerable mainstream media attention of late: On May 5, the New York Times published an article by Emily…
Women in prostitution wait for customers in Sonagachi, the notorious red-light district of Kolkata, India. (Bikas Das / AP Photo) On May 5, Emily Bazelon,…
Support for decriminalized prostitution is ideological, not empirical
Abstract Advocacy and scholarship addressing sex trafficking as a human rights issue has become a transnational effort, but there has been less attention to sub-national…
“I think these ads are appearing on Craigslist as a way for men to use their power, their access to housing, as a way to exploit women’s economic desperation,” Grey said. “We’re in a housing crisis, women are in poverty.”
Prostitution in France is now legally recognized as violence against women rather than as “sex work.” By an overwhelming majority (64-12), the country’s National Assembly…
Men don’t ‘need’ hookers, they want them. Let’s follow the enlightened Nordic countries and curb this vile sex trade.
In August 2015, Amnesty International voted to support pimps and sex buyers rather than people in prostitution – 90% of whom are not “voluntary sex…